Adding a second reef

The boat came with but a single reef on the mainsail, but cringles for a second one. Unfortunately,
there weren't enough deck organizer sheaves or rope clutches to accommodate a second reef, so
I had to add these. The boat uses a double-line reefing system (one line for the tack,
another for the clew), so this meant two extra sheaves and two extra rope clutches.

The original port-side Schaefer deck organizer just before I removed it.

You can see the three filled in holes from the original Schaefer organizer, plus the
two new holes for the new Harken organizers. What you can't see is that I reamed out the
core material to about 1/4" in the new holes, then filled with a thickened epoxy mixture.

The boat came with two Schaefer triple-sheave deck organizers. I replaced these with stacked
Harken two-sheave organizers, for four sheaves total on each side.

After removing the old Schaefer organizers, I filled the old holes with epoxy. Then I drilled
the new holes for the Harken organizers. Using a bent nail chucked into a drill, I reamed out
the balsa core in the new holes. Then I taped the bottom and filled the holes with thickened
epoxy. Finally, I drilled out the epoxy out to the correct size.

The finished port-sized deck organizer (click to enlarge).

The next job was to add an extra rope clutch to the cabin top. On the starboard side, I simply
moved the existing clutches over to port about an inch, opening up enough space to squeeze in
a new clutch on the starboard side. Because the cabin top is not cored in this area, this
was a simple job.

The starboard rope clutches. By moving the clutches over slightly to port, there was
enough room to squeeze the extra clutch in on the right and still have a fair lead through the slot in the dodger coaming. (Click
to enlarge)

Unfortunately, things weren't so simple on the port side. While taking the headliner off to gain access
to the underside of the cabin was easy enough on the starboard side, on the port side it would have
required removing a door frame and part of the companionway! So, I decided to forgo the
clutch, and instead use one of the existing clutches for the second reef tack line. That meant some
other line had to go. I ended up moving the whisker pole topping lift to a cam-block at the base of
the mast.